here's everything you need to know about Aditya L-1, Isro's mission to study the Sun

BY - rivanshi rakhRai

Aditya-L1 will be launched on September 2 at 11:50 am from Sriharikota

The spacecraft will travel 1.5 million km from the Earth to the Lagrange 1 or L1 point between the Earth and the Sun

This distance is nearly four times that travelled by the Chandrayaan missions, but just 1% of the 150 million km between the Earth and the Sun

The Aditya-L1 mission will see the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carry the 1,475-kg spacecraft to an elliptical orbit around the Earth

This incredible journey will position the Aditya-L1 spacecraft in an elliptical orbit

The mission has much potential for solar science, as it will provide scientists with crucial information about things like solar flares, magnetic fields, and even the Sun's outermost layer, called the corona

The satellite comes equipped with seven different tools, each of which is meant to probe different layers of the Sun

Four will be positioned at L1 to directly observe the Sun, while the other three will conduct on-the-spot analyses of particles and fields